Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt

   1 Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft)
   2 ================================
   3
   4 Updates since v1.7.0
   5 --------------------
   6
   7  * Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/.
   8
   9  * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
  10    for a password can be told to use an external program given via
  11    GIT_ASKPASS.
  12
  13  * Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
  14    now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
  15    expect one.
  16
  17  * Comes with an updated bash-completion script.
  18
  19  * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
  20    a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
  21
  22  * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
  23    CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
  24
  25  * "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules.
  26
  27  * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
  28    tokens.
  29
  30  * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now.
  31
  32  * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration
  33    variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or
  34    $HOME/.gitconfig).
  35
  36  * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that
  37    are not managed by git.
  38
  39  * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never.
  40
  41  * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors.
  42
  43  * "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
  44    commits, instead of showing combined diff.
  45
  46  * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also
  47    to use the "union merge" behaviour.
  48
  49  * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned many commands
  50    and features to help you carry notes forward across rebases and amends.
  51
  52  * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in
  53    a more readable way.
  54
  55  * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits
  56    near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar
  57    to how "git checkout branch" does.
  58
  59  * "git status" notices and describes dirty submodules.
  60
  61  * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories
  62    with CRLF line endings.
  63
  64  * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
  65
  66  * "gitweb" installation procedure can use "minified" js/css files
  67    better.
  68
  69 Fixes since v1.7.0
  70 ------------------
  71
  72 All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this
  73 release, unless otherwise noted.
  74
  75  * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory
  76    was ignored.
  77
  78  * "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" didn't terminate a record with LF for
  79    commits without any message.
  80
  81  * "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike
  82    newer tools in the git toolset.
  83
  84 ---
  85 exec >/var/tmp/1
  86 echo O=$(git describe)
  87 O=v1.7.1-rc0-36-gb92cbb6
  88 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..